recovering a corrupted video from a flip

[clubbingwithsticks]

Greetings,

I have a flip ultra HD (1hr version).

While recording a video this weekend, my camera received a fairly severe impact -- enough that the batteries got jarred and shut down the camera without properly stopping recording.

I was continuously recording up until that point (so only one large file should have been made). Fortunately my camera still functions and shows that it has about half of its recording space available, but the file is not showing up in the camera's playback menu. Likewise, it is not showing up in windows explorer when the camera is attached via USB.

Using a utility called "Recuva", I found the file inside the 100video folder, but it was listed as being 0bytes in size and was "unrecoverable".

Doing a little more digging, it appears that what happened was the abrupt shutdown corrupted the footer (or likely didn't attach it at all) and now the file most likely needs to be reindexed.

Am I missing something here, or is that what is actually going on? If so, I have pretty much no idea how to proceed. Does anyone have any pointers?

Thanks in advance!

[budwzr]

Did you try using the Flip software? It's built into the camera.